5 Minutes Quotes

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

And for a minute, maybe longer... everything that threatens us, threatens to save us.

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

I can get ready in 10 minutes.

Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.

madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next.

Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.

It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.

Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

You put more value on every minute...You know I always kinda thought I did that. I really always enjoyed myself. But it's more valuable now. You're reminded to enjoy every sandwich and every minute.

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.

If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.

I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.

When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes

Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.